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Romanian Marian Dragulescu won on Saturday the gold medal in the men&#8217;s floor event of the European Gymnastics Championships, the first for team Romania in the competition running April 19 &#8211; 23 in Cluj-Napoca. The 36-year old multiple World and European champion scored 14.500 for his routine. Russian Dmitry Lankin landed the silver medal with [&#8230;]

Former tennis great Ilie Nastase, Romania&#8217;s non-playing captain in the Fed Cup playoff, was expelled from the tie against Great Britain in Mamaia after a build-up of incidents and unsportsmanlike conduct, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said in a statement following the events on Saturday afternoon. According to British media, Nastase engaged in verbal abuse [&#8230;]

After years of waiting, especially because of the prolonged deadline of finalizing the modernization works, the racing was resumed on the Hippodrome in Ploiesti, the only one in Romania with a trotting track. The event occurred right before Easter, to maintain the old tradition, when the first races were organized in April. On April 15, [&#8230;]

Romanian gymnast Marian Dragulescu on Wednesday qualified to the men&#8217;s floor and vault finals of the ongoing European Individual Gymnastics Championships in Cluj-Napoca. Multiple world and European medallist Dragulescu put up a winning performance in the floor event, with judges awarding him 14.666 points, the second best score in the qualifications. In the vault event, [&#8230;]

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Marius Dunca attended on Wednesday the opening ceremony of the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Cluj-Napoca, the first edition organised in Romania after 60 years. &#8220;It is an honor and a moment of pride for Romania to organize again, after 60 years, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Gymnastics is [&#8230;]

The 7th European Artistic Gymnastics Championships are starting today at the Polyvalent Hall in the Romanian northwestern city of Cluj-Napoca, 60 years after Romania hosted the competition for the first time. Competing will be 274 gymnasts, 168 in men&#8217;s events and 106 in women&#8217;s events, hailing from 37 countries. The first major gymnastics competition in [&#8230;]

Romanian gymnast Catalina Ponor has won the finals of the balance beam and floor events, on Sunday, in the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup competition taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. The triple Olympic champion of Athens (2004) won the floor event with 13.433, surpassing in the finals Australian Emily Little, 13.400, and Azeri Marina Nekrasova, 12.833. [&#8230;]

Romanian Catalina Ponor qualified on Friday for the floor and beam finals of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku, landing the highest scores in both women&#8217;s events. A triple Olympic champion in Athens (2004), Ponor scored 13.233 points with her floor routine (Romanian Anamaria Ocolisan came in last with 10.833 p). In the beam [&#8230;]

Romanian player Cristina Neagu (who plays for the ZRK Buducnost Podgorica) was designated the best handball player in the world in 2016, according to a survey carried out by the International Handball Federation (IHF) on its official website. Neagu wins for the third time the title of the best handball player in the world, after [&#8230;]